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Not quite “Always There…”
 
At the mouth of the River Hamble
lies Warsash, home to the third of Martins Bank’s Southampton area branches,
the first two being found at SOUTHAMPTON
ABOVE BAR, and SOUTHAMPTON
DOCKS. As late as 1968 the Bank opens a fourth
branch at HEDGE
END. Boating being such a way of life in
Warsash, the area makes the perfect backdrop for the 1980s BBC Television
series “Howards’ Way”… Our gallery shows Warsash as both Martins and
Barclays, inside and out.
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In Service: 5 July 1938 until 11 September 1972
Branch Images © Barclays Ref: 0030-2704
Extract from Martins Bank Limited Annual
Report and Account for 1938 © Barclays
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1971
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As Barclays has a new Branch
planned in Warsash, the name above the door changes, but the much-loved
Martins Bank hanging sign is allowed to remain until the business is moved
in 1972. Of the four Branches
originally opened by Martins Bank in various parts of Southampton, only
High Street remains for any decent length of time beyond the 1969 merger
with Barclays, serving customers until 1983. The Docks is first to go in
1935, and High Street Replaces City Office at 139 Above Bar. Although Hedge End is still open today,
it has been moved a couple of doors down from its original location. As our
towns and Cities change and adapt to the twenty-first Century, is it plain
to see that very little in life is “Always there…”
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1971
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